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Scraps and 4?acts. ? N/w Orleans, January 31: The approaching flood situation here was aggravated to-day by the announcement of the local weather bureau that a stage of 20 feet will be reached at New Orleans, owing to the rains of the past two days over the Mississippi valley. The guage to-day read 18.2, with the water which has reached the top of a low section of the levee In the down town district at Canal street beginning to wash the sand bags, which have been piled upon the levee. Even If 20 feet is reached here the water will be a foot under previous records. ?'Senator Hale got after the United States senate last Tuesday with a sharp stick and created quite a stir. Senator Hale said that members of the senald' had more of a dlSDOSitlon to talk than to pass necessary legislation. He pointed out that there are only twenty-seven more days of the present session and during that time the senate would have to pass appropriation hills amounting to about * $800,000,000, and that if this work was to be accomplished before adjournment the senate would have to buckle down to business. Mr. Hale said that Mr. Beveridge of Indiana, had been talking for two days on his child labor bill and was to talk still another day. and that while all this was entertaining and instructive, it did not pa&s any legislation. After Mr. Hale got through the senate got down to business and passed bills carrying several million dollars of appropriations.' ?Representative Livingston of Georgia. on Tuesday appeared before the house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce and urged favorable action on his resolution providing for an investigation by the department of commerce ana taoor 01 ine nuciuauuuo In the cotton market, with the particular object of ascertaining whether such fluctuations have resulted from the character of the contracts of alleged sales, and deliveries made on the New York Cotton Exchange. Extensive dealing in futures was denounced by Livingston who said that the cotton growers and cotton spinners of the United States are absolutely at the mercy of the cotton speculators. He mentioned thirty classifications of cotton which formerly existed and called attention to the fact that eleven of these classes have been dropped re cently. Livingston spoke of his attempt to have the cotton manipulators barred from the mails, and said that he was threatened with a libel suit because of his action, but advised the representatives of the cotton operators that he would furnish $500 to assist in the prosecution of the suit against him TC-u, aim uau uraiu uv mwir threat ? Rev. Bascom Anthony, probably the most sensational Methodist preacher In Savannah, has raised a storm of protest from the women clerks of Savannah by a sermon in which he touched upon the Thaw case. He said that he had more respect for a shop girl than he had for Evelyn Thaw. Then the shop sirls got busy with their pencils and wrapping paper and began to write cards to the newspapers. What they said about Mr. Anthony was a plenty. Tfcey declared that he had insulted every member of the clerk calling, those who were trying to earn an honest living and leading honest, upright lives along with the rest. They said that he ought to have been ashamed to have made such a comparison. Mr. Anthony's friends say that he has been misunderstood. He really intended to compliment the shop girls, they declare, and had no idea of hurting their feelings. He was just trying to show that Evelyn was not a woman who should command respect and he didn't intend to hurt anybody's feelings, etc. This explanation does not entirely satisfy. It is expected that the Retail Clerks' association will take the matter up and pass resolutions upon the flippant manner, in which Mr. Anthony compared hard-working girls to girls of Evelyn's type. ? Mme. de Thebes of Parisian soothsaying fame, has issued her prediction for next year. At the end of every twelve months, Parisians are looking out for the prophesies of Mme. de Thebes. They are an essential factor in the humor of the season. Her predictions for 1907 are not particularly gruesome. The woes of England will be reduced to a quarrel between the house of lords ajid the house of commons. In France, however, there will be a succession of political changes, plots, counter plots and all of the other pyrotechnics of fate to divert people's attention without entirely absorbing it. This is nothing new. The diversions will be quite welcome to the average Frenchman. Whilst the eye of her fancy was rolling toward Austria Mme. de Thebes saw troubles brewing. Quite naturally, so cynics declare, for the reason that troubles have been brewing there from time immemorial. Germany, she thinks is on the decline which is no compliment to that enterprising nation. The United States will be ravaged by fire she de clares. Spain will be bothered by anarchists?nothing really new. however?and Italy will bud a new renaissance. As regards Russia, her future is hidden in impenetrable fog and Mme. de Thebes could see nothing clear. She Is not the only one unhappy. Belgium approaches an era of social transformation and the Latin nations, tt Is declared, will lead the world. ? Washington, January 30: Uncle Sam Is supplying his lawmakers with offices. Two of the most magnificent buildings in the country are being put up by the national government for the exclusive use of senators and representatives in congress. Each will occupy a block and will cost $2,500,000. One of the twin structures will be for the house and the other for the senate, and they will be detached wings to the capitol. Heretofore the congressmen have had no regular offices, each has had his headquarters in whatever place pleased him most. There has been no system about the accommodations. Now each branch of congress will have a handsome office building, with uniformed attendants, a postoffice and telephone and telegraph service. The southern building, for the house, will have 429 rooms, one for every one of the 410 representatives and nineteen for future growth in the membership. On account of their smaller number the senators, in the northern building, will get the better of the bargain in the matter of space, every senator having a mom for himself, one for his secretary. and a bathroom. In designing these congressional offices the architects put particular emphasis upon safety from fire, and the specifications call for 230.000 square feet of terra cotta hollow tile for the building. Though only four stories high, each of them will have as great a quantity of hollow tile brick, in It as many a skyscraper the height of which makes fireproofing an absolute necessity. Thus, while the character of Washington architecture demands that the buildings be low. they are made just as safe as if they were high. Fire will have no chance against them. The exterior of these capitol wings will have white marble. They will be connected with the capitol by arcades lined with ornamental brick and brilliantly lighted by electricity. Features of each will | be a rotunda, reaching from floor to floor and capped by a great dome 70 * * n no unite mnm 86 I irvt III UlaillCiCI , U VUUVUV> . feet long: and 54 feet wide: and a dining room 65 by 30 feet, furnished in ornamental plaster. 2fht \|orkrilW tfnquirrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.t FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1907. Now what will the senate do? It Is up to the members to say whether or not they passed the Smith resolution for buncombe. Somebody said that 1-X liquor will make a rabbit spit Into a bull dog's face. Wonder what brand they use to make supporters of the stale machine vote for Prohibition? ? ' What we would like to know now, Is, how those dispensary fellows who so suddenly turned Prohibitionists are going to vote in county elections in case the local option bill passes the senate. Senator Brice has in process of passage a bill to increase the salaries of the supervisor, the county commissioners and the superintendent of education. The bill is In accordance with the recent recommendation of the grand jury. That resolution to prosecute the people who are believed to have been stealing from the school fund through the dispensary is along the right line. What this state needs more man anything else is that some of its rascals should be put in stripes. Mr. Richards has Introduced a Joint resolution providing that the question of repealing the lien law be submitted to the voters in a general election. If the resolution is agreed to, it will probably have the effect of making the stay-at-home business vote sit up and take notice. The Carey-Cothran bill will probably come up in the senate today. The outlook is that there will be a vote on the so-called Raysor "Purification" bill. If this bill passes, the state machine will stand for another year of good stealing. If it does not pass, then the Carey-Cothran bill will go through with a whoop. ?% ' Is debating the dispensary question in the senate last Tuesday Senator Biease got on mis: "Last year you put a man oft the board for building houses in Newberry. Now who is building' houses in Chester?" The senator must have been referring to the man who talked so virtuously to legislative candidates last summer and afterward claimed that he did not say it. A story has been sent out from Washington on what seems to be pretty good authority that President Roosevelt has definitely decided to appoint Ralph Tyler, a negro, to be surveyor of the port of Cincinnati. Senaator Foraker's home town. Neither of the Ohio senators have been consulted about the matter; but the understanding is that both have previously recommended the negro for other positions, and it will be rather embarrassing for them to undertake to prevent his confirmation by the senate. The president's idea Is evidently to make Foraker and other Ohio politicians try it on and see for themselves how it fits. There is a good deal of talk going the rounds of the papers about sensa tional developments at the recent banquet of the Gridiron club of Washington. The Gridiron club is an organization of newspaper men. and it is famous for its banquets, a feature of which Is the habit of playing all kinds of jokes on famous guests. Presidents, senators and foreign ministers are always among the guests. No man stands so high as to feel above being honored by an invitation from the clob. And not only this, no matter how high may be the official position of any guest, he does well to take what comes to him. The newspaper people treat everybody on a plane of perfect equality. They probe their bumps of ingenuity to the bottommost limit in order to get up skits that take off the policies of the president that they think are open to criticism, and they are frank almost to the limit of brutality in showing what they think of everybody and everything. It is the rule to throw no bouquets, and it is also the rule not to tell on the outside what occurs at the banquets. The reports are usually censored by a committee and the understanding is that nothing is to be published without the sanction of this committee. But sometimes things leak out. It seems impossible to prevent. At the last banquet, Pres ident Roosevelt was ordered to defend his conduct in relation to the Brownsville affair. The president replied in a speech that incorporated principally what he has already had to say in interviews and messages. He made a pointed reference to Senator Foraker and characterized the recent debates in the senate as purely academic. The toastmaster called upon Senator Foraker for reply and the senator made an eloquent speech repeating most of the things he had already said in the senate. He dressed the president down good along the line of his well-known dictatorial disposition, and the newspaper men. thoroughly enjoying the situation. gave him vigorous applause which, with what Mr. Foraker had to say. made the president as mad as an wet hen. The president tried to reply, but the toastmaster would permit no interruption. When Mr. Foraker concluded. Mr. Roosevelt was invited to take the floor; but it is said that he utterly failed to make good. How the story got out is not known; but. the understanding Is that the Gridiron press committee Is good mad over thai feature of the incident. SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION. Senate Committee Makes Report As to Dispensary Directors. Columbia State. February 1. In the senate last night H. B. Carlisle, chairman of the judiciary committee. to which was referred the re|s?rt of the special committee appointed to Investigate the affairs of the state dispensary, presented the following concurrent resolution, which was adopted without a dissenting vote: "Be it resolved by the senate, the house of -representatives concurring, That In our opinion the directors oi the state dispensary have violated the law In the purchase of liquors ana are liable to removal by the governor and prosecution: that It be referred to the governor to take such action as he may deem necessary and proper in the premises; and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to his excellency the governor, with a copy of the testimony taken by the legislative committee on the affairs of the state dispensary, together with their report thereon." The following senators compose the committee which reported the above resolution: H. B. Carlisle, chairman; LeGrand G. Walker, T. M. Raysor, F. P. McGowan, G. H. Bates, W. H. Wells, J. R. Earle, W. N. Graydon, T. Yancy Williams. Huger Sinkler, R. W. Haynes, J. C. Otts, T. I. Rogers. Attorney General Lyon was seen by a representative of the State Immediately after the resolution was adopted by the senate and asked for an 4?*nression. "I do not care tc make any public expression," said Mr. Lyon, "until the matter Is placed before the governor and he takes some action. I won't object to talking at the proper time." Governor Ansel was Informed of the senate's action at 11:30 o'clock Ipst night but would make no statement. NEGRO OFFICIALS IN NORTH. President Will Probably Giva Foraker a Dose of His Own Medicine. Zach McGee telegraphs from Washington to the Columbia State: Although certain high officials in the postofflce department have given southern senators and representatives to understand that just at this lime there will not be any further appointments of negroes to office in the south because it would but foment the very critical status of the race feeling, it is breathed about Washington that there will be some appointments of negroes in some of the northern states and that just now he would especially like to give some of the senators who have been making such noisy defense of the "black man" some opportunities to show their undying affection for the downtrodden. Unquestionably there are some meritorious negroes in the north who would be fitted for positions as postmasters and other offices In the government, and in the gift of the president; the door of hope should not alone be opened ir? the south. Yet these negroes are never appointed in the northern states. No matter who the president has been, or of whal parties the senators whose duty It would be to vote upon the confirmation, there have always been advanced some very good reasons why the negroes in northern states should not be appointed, and the negroes have been sidetracked. The attitude taken in some of the northern states with respect to this Brownsville business would seem to indicate that the time is ripe for the appointment of some of these deserving states, and it is said that the president is willing to act accordingly. In fact some of those who share the president's confidence declare that he will make several appointments of negroes to office in the north. It is thought that at least one ol these contemplated appointments is to be in the state of Ohio, which loves a negro?at a long distance?and hates him at a short distance perhaps more than any other state in the union. In this case, Senator Foraker would have a chance to do something substantial for his brother in black by urging immediate confirmation. WEALTH IN THE WORLD. United States Said to Own Practically Half. The United States has practically one-half of the banking powers ot the world, stated Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States, in an address before the Washington chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks last night, says the Washington Star. The banking power of the world is $38,000,000,000, and of thai the United States has $16,000,000,00(1 and Great Britain has $5,000,000,000. The story of the United States currency issues is as interesting as a novel," declared Mr. Treat at the conclusion of his address on the history of the currency. He pointed out the straits to which the government wa.? put in 1861 and the few years following, during the war of the rebellion, in raising money with which to meet the expenses of the country. The first United States notes which were issued in 1861, were interest bearing. At first the rate of interest was 6 per cent and after that for a few years it varied from 3 and 3.65 to 6 and 7.3 per cent, Every scheme to make the people satisfied with the notes of the government was devised, "because" said Mr, Treat, "the government was poor and could not do as it wanted to, but ai it was compelled to do." From that time to the present, he stated, the credit of the United State.' has been growing better. Now nc such schemes are resorted to. The government can even sell bonds bearing 2 per cent interest, at 104, a premium, without trouble. When it is also noted that the British government sells Its bonds bearing 3 pei cent at 85. the immense credit of the republic of Washington is realized and appreciated. Mr. Treat made a plea for a unification of the currency issues and for the payment of the demand notes ol the government. The amount of sue! notes, it was stated, is limited tc $346,000,000. and by retiring $10,000,000 a year. the government could soon pay all its creditors. What to put in place of them, he said must be determined by some modern Alexander Hamilton. The bank notes ol the national banks, he thought, art not issued in sufficient quantity, anc he advocated that this privilege b< extended to state banks, trust companies and similar institutions, provided they are covered by securitiei in the United States treasury. California School Controvkrsy.? Representatives Hayes of California i on yesterday made a statement con cerning a conference held at th< White House on Wednesday betweet the president and members of hi! cabinet with the California delega tion: "The California delegation i: pleased with the situation with refer ence to Japan as developed at th? conference. We feel very hopefu that the result of this conference ant of others will be a solution of th< Japanese difficulty that will be per fectly satisfactory to the people o: California." Speaking for himself. Mr. Haye! said: "I have no fear of any diplomat!) crisis with Japan nor of any serioui trouble of any kind with that na tion." It is stated at the war departmen that no reports have been receivet from any source indicating that th< Japanese in Hawaii have organize! secret military organization and art drilling with the view of acquiritu control of the island. Regarding the appeal of the wai department to congress for an appro priation to complete the defenses o; Hawaii, it is denied that this appea has any connection whatever with th? relations between Japan and the Uni ted States, but was simply dictatec by a desire "to put the house in or der" in accordance with the plan! formed at least a year ago by the mil itary and naval officers charged witf the duty of defending the country. < LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. B. Gaines?Haa received new wall paper samples and want8 to show them to you. Samples for sale. First National Bank?Advises you to i begin early In the year to make It the most successful you ever had. M. W. White?Says good fortune makes friends of the man who is trying to do his best. Use discrimination In buying and selling. York Drug store?Has complete stock of pure fresh field and garden seeds. Fels-Naptha soap for laundry work, i I. W. Johnson?Gives you a pointer on where to get baking powder, postum cereal, eeer-o-see. force, etc. 1 York Supply Co.?Received this week Dixie Boy plows and points, Oliver i plow points, R. R. P. oats, corn, etc. Fertilizers. ! J. L. Williams & Co.?Tell you to aim i direct for their special sale. Prices i quoted on clothing, overcoats, etc. . Dobson Bros.' Cash Store?Is receiving new spring goods, including chiffons, ribbons, veilings, flowers, etc. Trlmi med hats at reduced prices. J. C. Wllborn?Offers the residence of Frof. J. C. Allen for sale at reasonable price. See fourth page, i Thomson Co.?February 2d begin a special seven days white goods sale. Special prices on overcoats and ladles' cloaks, i Yorkville Hardware Co.?Set forth claims of superiority for the Lynchburg line of plows and say they are the best. J. Q. Wray?Directs you where to find a bargain in various kinds of goods if you want bargains. First National Bank?Publishes state, ment of condition at close of business on January 26. I Mrs. is. JO. rousiiee?in ueie iu amy, and Is fully prepared to take care i of all kinds of sewing. [ Yorkville B. & M. Co.?Is showing new I white goods. Special Inducements to i clothing buyers for one week. Mr. Raysor's bill to appropriate $50,000 to assist In the establishment of high schools in the state passed the senate yesterday. Throughout the fight In the house over the dispensary the other day, Messrs. Epps, Glasscock and Slaugh ter followed Mr. Richards in his fight to save the state central machine in Columbia, and Dr. Saye voted to kill the state central machine. | WITHIN THE TOWN. > ?Mr. W. I. Witherspoon has perfected his plans for the erection of 1 quite an extensive series of warehouses on his property on West Madl: son street. H4s main building is to 1 be sixty by eighty feet and there are to be a number of smaller buildings. Tho nlon (a f a Kat'o o uonaroto WflPA. house for each different kind of hard| ware ordinarily handled In large enough quantity to call for a separate warehouse, and the stock In the main 1 building Is to be kept up from the smaller buildings. Mr. Wltherspoon has been making purchases on quite a large scale and it Is his purpose to do . en extensive business. > THE TEN HOUR BILL. The Toole bill to limit the hours of labor In cotton and woolen mills passed .the senate last Wednesday. The text of it is as follows: . "Section 1. That ten hours a day, or 60 hours a week, shall constitute the hours for working for all operatives and employees in cotton and woolen manufacturing establishments engaged In the manufacture of yarns, cloth, 1 hosiery and other products for merchandise, except mechanics, engineers, firemen, watchmen, teamsters, yard | employees and clerical force. All contracts for longer hours of work other than herein provided In said manufacturing establishments shall be, and the same are herebv. declared null and ' void, and any person entering Into or i enforcing such contracts shall be > deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in each and every instance, and on coni viction in a court of competent Jurisdiction, shall be fined a sum of m$ney ' not less than $25 nor more than *100, ; or Imprisonment not exceeding 30 days. . "Sec. 2. That the hours of labor shall remain as they now are until July 1. 1907, when they shall be reduced to 62 hours. On the first day of January, 1908, and from and after that date the hours of labor shall not exceed 60 hours. That the provisions of this act shall apply only to cotton and woolen mills. "Sec. 3. That all acts and parts of ! acts inconsistent with this act be, and , are hereby, repealed." ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Jas. P. Thomson went to Lin> colnton, N. C., yesterday on business. Master Leroy Williams of Ebenerer, is spending a few days with his grandfather, Mr. L. R. Williams. Miss Katie Templeton, an aged lady (about ninety) who lives two miles , south of Yorkville, is critically ill. i Dr. Miles Walker has been quite unwell for several days having been ; attacked with a chill on Tuesday; out [ is now better. 1 Mr. Wm. P. Barnwell of Savannah, Ga . spent several days In Yorkville [ this week with his brother, Mr. John G. Barnwell. Mr. J. F. Youngblood has moved into his new home on Lincoln street j and Mr. M. B. Jennings has moved , into the cottage vacated by Mr. Youngblood on Cartwright ave. ! Gaffney special of January 30 to ' Charlotte Observer: Little Bess, the I four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilkins. fell from a chair s yesterday afternoon, nearly severing her tongue with her teeth. Dr. B. It. Steedley, who was called in, found | It necessary to put her under the Influence of an aesthetic and take several stitches. The little patient is doing ' as well as could be expected. r . | INTERESTING OLD RELIC. ; Through the courtesy of Mr. I. W. f Johnson of Yorkville. The Enquirer has come into possession of an interesting old souvenir of the Revolutionary struggle in York county, in the shape of a piece of the identical cannon referred to by the late Dr. Robert Lathan In his recently republished sketch \ of Hill's Old Iron works. The sketch was published in our issue of November 16, last. After telling of the establishment of the iron works and of the estimate in which - they were held by the patriots of this * section, Mr. Lathan goes on to speak , of the raid by which the British de stroyed the place and relates these ins eidents: [ "Colonel Hill was in the army. His ^ sons were at home. The two oldest? Robert and Andrew?had received | some intimation that the British and i Tories were coming. They had pre" pared a small cannon and having r mounted it upon a stump, stood with match In hand waiting until the party s would come in sight. The hill over which they hud their cannon mounted, - overlooked the whole adjacent country s to the south?the direction in which the boys supposed the party would come. To their utter astonishment, before 1 they were aware of It. a party of Brit' ish came upon them from the east. ; Their cannon was pointing in the 1 wrong direction. Without inflicting i any injury upon the brave but out< generaled boys, their cannon was taken from them and carried to the foot r of the hill and thrown into the creek. - Here it lay for years. The din of war f had died away and the country was en1 joying peace and prosperity. The lit-. ? tie cannon was forgotten. One day - while Mr. Garvin, the miller, was en1 gaged in fishing, his seine became en tangled and on thrusting his hand in * the water he was astonished to find - that the obstacle was a piece of iron. ? The Iron was raised to the surface and behold it was a veritable cannon.' For a number of years after Its discovery this little cannon was used by the boys of the neighborhood to shoot , big guns on Christmas and the Fourth of July. Finally as the result of an overcharge It was bursted. Frag ments of It are still to be seen." Mr. Johnson came upon the piece of I cannon referred to In the storeroom J recently vacated by him and formerly a occupied by the late Dr. J. C. Kuy- t kenda). The story as we have It, that c on reading Dr. I-athan's sketches some * thirty yenrs ago. Dr. Kuykendal was possessed of a desire to get a piece of a the old cannon as a souvenir, and was I a finally successful In obtaining the ? piece now under consideration. The fragment is about 18 inches In length and includes the breech end of the cannon. It weighs about sixty pounds. The bore la about an inch and a half in diameter. CONFEDERATE ROLLS. The Winnie Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is considering the idea of preparing a [complete roll of the soldiers who served in the civil war from this county. As yet the ladles have no well defined plan of procedure; but it Is to be [ hoped that they will not allow themselves to abandon the Idea. There is I no other work they can do as we see it that will prove more Important. It is not generally known perhaps, but it Is a fact nevertheless, that there is already a more complete enrollment of York county soldiers than there is it any other cqijhty in the state. A few years ago the general assembly passed an act providing for the enrollment of soldiers by counties and townships. In many of the counties no attention was paid to the act; but the late Major James F. Hart and several others of this county took especial J! interest In the matter and followed it f op until a list was completed for every I township. These lists are now to be found in j ' the office of the clerk of the court. S They are not .absolutely accurate, of 1 course; hut they are very valuable and ^ with patient, intelligent additions can c | he made much more valuable. If the ladles will permit us to make * a suggestion in connection with the | proposed undertaking, that suggestion i: would be to the effect that the best 11 thing to do is to complete the list In J j the clerk's office, put it In the form of a pamphlet and pay expenses by c selling that pamphlet to descendants jand relatives of the soldiers and to f all others who may choose to buy. ? : l WINTER PLOWING. Mr. W. R. Hayes of Sharon No. 1, ? was In Yorkvllie Wednesday on busiii ness. and in conversation with the reporter, remarked about the unusual amount of winter plowing that has l>een done up to this time. "There has been more and more ^ winter plowing every year for several vears nasL" said Mr. Haves: "but this , year the amount exceeds anything that J. has ever been known before." K Asked for an explanation of the sit- 11 uation. Mr. Hayes gave his idea about r like this: ' I "The warm, dry weather, being espe- 6 dally favorable to work, and people j. who had either tried winter plowing j before or seen it tried with so much success, have just taken advantage of * the opportunity. Whether they are t looking forward to a scarcity of labor, a I cannot say. But that Is not the most c Important feature of the situation. J With their stock standing idle, and a themselves having nothing more lm- I portant in hand, our people have Just J seen proper to save time and labor t that would have otherwise been wast- \ ed. That is about all there Is to It. * "At this season, you know, it Is convenient to use two and three horse \ plows. The stock has been available, t Where a man has three mules, there J has been no trouble about using them, f Everybody knows that this kind of t nlowing is less practicable later In the ' spring. Every man must have his own mule, and the two and three horse plows, for the most part, have to stand idle." Mr. Hayes said that there was lots of land In his neighborhood that is all ready for the fertilizers, and farm work generally is in a more forward stage than he has ever known before. THE WHITESIDES BURNING, Although the pursuit of the parties who burned the barn of Mr. J. Luther VVhitesides on Inst Saturday morning has continued all the week, no more arrests have been made. At the request of parties interested In pushing the case the names of the suspects and certain other details were omitted from the statement published Tuesday; but as there seems to be no longer any need for such suppression, the story can be printed in a little more detail. The tracks to and from the bam In dicated that two persons were Impli- 1 cated, and suspicion was not long In attaching to Jim Bryant and Will Crawford, Bryant because of the stories told by the witnesses who were subsequently committed to jail and Crawford because Mr. Whitesldes had found occasion to give him a beating about a year or eighteen months before and because he had since been seen in the neighborhood again only on the day previous to the fire. Crawford's mother, Mary Ellen Smarr, says she saw her son at her house on last Friday, and that he and Bryant had conferences together during the day. Bryant has been well known for several years as a slick negro. He has been in the illicit liquor business and has been suspected of a great many thefts; but nobody has ever been able to get evidence against him that would hold. There has been some good, earnest work done in an effort to catch the suspected Incendiaries, but up to this time it has been without much practical result. LOCAL LACONICS. Bethel Road Tax Election. The election recently petitioned for by the qualillcd voters of Bethel township for un election on the question of levying a special tax of two mills on the dollar for road purposes, is to be called as soon as the county board of commissioners is advised by the people Interested as to what date will suit them. The Cigarette Bu.t,. ? Senator Blease's anti-cigarette bill passed Its third reading in the senate on Monday. The text of the bill Is as follows: Section 1. That after the approval of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, offer or expose for sale any cigarettes or cigarette papers. Section 2. That any person, firm or corporation, or their agent, violating the provisions of this act shall be subject. upon conviction therefor, to pay i a line of not more than one hundred t dollars or to suffer imprisonment for 1 not more than thirty days, within the i discretion of the trial court. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. anl ina ro Dismiss Mr. Lingle?District Con- wu ference?Personal and Other Notes. Mr Jorrwpondenee of the Yorkrille Rnquiret. ly Rook Hiix, January 30.?J. Max J?"1 loach, who has for some time been lolding the position of carrier of R. F. bj ). No. 6. has resigned and will leave In bl" i few days for Buffalo. N. Y., where to le has secured a position as street stll ar conductor. Fred Sturgis, the sub- ma tltute for that route has taken the acaney. 1 "Buster Brown," the original Buster, md his dog "Tige" monopolized the a8i( ttentlon of all citizens, both great and mall. Wednesday afternoon for half n hour. That is Buster occupied an mn?w?ilaa<1 nlotfArm An thn u Irani fnr i 11 O ni|/i irv latru I'laiiviui uu tuv ovt wv ?.v* hat length of time and spoke to the P rig crowd In waiting. The crowd had "ol teen there for fully an hour previous o the famous boy's appearance. tfu A meeting of Bethel Presbytery has "jv reen called by the moderator, Rev. G. ?JS *. Mayes of Blackstock. to convene t,ie it Chester on the 8th of February to 801 ake action upon the call extended by Pei he First Presbyterian church of At- cm anta to Rev. Walter L. Lingle, D. D., wa >f the First Presbyterian church of mJ' his city. m|l What Is perhaps the finest pair of 8ai nules ever brought to this market was rough t for the college farm this week. ' ; These n.ules are four years old and the ralr weighs 3,100 pounds. They were rrought here by a local firm last week. 'ts The Ladles Aid society of the A. R. 1,01 'resbyterian church served supper aJ'1 Thursday afternoon and evening In ?" dcEIwee's cafe and as usual their eforts were crowned with abundant sue- r"f ress. These good people are so liberal (,'s n their affairs that everybody takes lis wife and rushes to them whenever hey undertake anything of this kind, mowing that they will furnish a good upper and a liberal one. ~~ A meeting of the stewards of the M. Co 5. churches of the Rock Hill district cal vas held Wednesday afternoon at the nl* esidence of Rev. R. E. Stackhouse, the bet iresldlng elder. The meeting was a ery harmonious one. Arrangements It * vere made to giving the district par- 'at' image a thorough repairing and re- ,bt iicrushing. There were present: May>r \V. H. Hardin of Chester; Major J. wa d. Riddle of I^incaster; Messrs. J. M. Pu iToder of Van Wyck; Geo. Ferguson of wo 2lgin; J. E. Leech of Hickory Grove. S. W. Garrison of Fort Mill: J. M. thl Seagle of Tirzah: W. H. Gladden of D. ilount Holly; I. S. Kidd and J. F. An- B. lerson of Rock Hill. >ni Mr. J. V. Murray, a former resident at if this city, who is now the superin- wh endent of agencies for the Virginia am Jfe Insurance company, spent several str lavs here this week. flic Hope Sadler, a young engineer grad- r'oi late of Clemson and famous as a foot- uii tall player while there, who came home flr< rom a fine position In Schenectady, hii *?. Y.. at the recent death of his fath- M( ir, is now with the Southern Power thf :ompany at Great Fall^ we Mrs. Harry Dickson and little son, thi if Charlotte, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. t.n 2. Tompkins this week. roi Mr. William Barron spent Thursday coi n Chester to attend the funeral of un diss Vlrgie Trlplett. ter Mr. Lee R. Williams and Misses Bes- his lie and Mary, spent Wednesday here, dis Mr. J. K. Scoggins is at home sick as if grippe. his HOUSE AGAINST DISPENSARY. JJ* SU| iarey-Cothran Local Option Bill pa Paaaos By Big Majority. After a two days battle royal, fol- jowing preliminary skirmishing that (,'n ommenced with the convening of the general assembly, the house on Wed- th lesday passed the Carey-Coth ran local iption bill, and put itself squarely on . ' ecord as favoring the immediate abo- , Ition of the big state central whisky istablishment that has been such a Hr t.,rw. H In Ihn nnatrlk nf an mn n V neo- . >le, especially during the past few "Jj 'ears. " The one great Issue last summer was f. vhether or not the state dispensary n hould be abolished. Following the es- 'w' ablishment of the state dispensary for i number of years, the principal lines tn< >f difference among the people was Hei rhether the best policy as to liquor to vas to prohibit It, sell it under state arv lusplces or under private auspices; Pa >ut during the past few years all of |UI hese questions have been overshad- ll >wed by the still greater question as to o whether the moral life of the state coi vas to be swamped In the corruption 'nt >elng bred in and flowing from the big tr :entml establishment In Columbia. ao1 There are still Prohibitionists, dls- be jensaryites and local optionists; but tw he Issue last summer was not based vo1 jpon these issues. The lines were Tr Irawn between those who desired to "Y ?old on to the dispensary as a source >f graft and political power and those at vho desired to put an end to the graft la; ind corruption that had flourished so a i ong by destroying its source?by a 1 freaking up the nest. an The flght in the house for the pas- Fo lage of the Carey-Cothran local op- an Ion bill last Tuesday and Wednesday Tr ook exactly the course that was out- gu Ined in the last issue of The Enquirer, wl rhe dispensaryites of the house realiz- coi ng that they were unable to pass the pit Richards "purification" bill, and know- wh ng that the senate would not pass a set 'rohibltion bill, sought to unite forces suj vlth the Prohibitionists against the gu ocal optionists, and they put up a pu rood struggle. They would have car- nis -ied their point probably had It not foi jeen for the fact that the CJarey-Coth- ch an bill was under the management of ha nen who thoroughly understand their he >uslness, and who are able to cope with foi he smartest leaders of the dispensary bG tide. ' de But It was a pretty game, well play- gcj ?d. Mr. Nash of Spartanburg, Is a en ife-long Prohibitionist and an able e(j nan. The Prohibitionists of the house ha vere willing to follow his lead because th, hey knew he was entitled to their jn :onfidence. Mr. Nash had prepared a we prohibition bill. After he had Intro- ch luced it and it had been referred to coj he dispensary committee, several well- he cnown dispensaryltes approached him ejj md assured him of their support. This eX( vas the first tangible evidence he had wc ?f a trick that was understood to be ne n contemplation. He decided there'ore to ask the committee not to report ~~ lis bill until he should make further "J1 equest and let the matter go at that, c*?xcept that he went on to poll the sen- u" ite and assured himself that that body wa vould not vote for a prohibition bill. The Carey-Cothran bill was called ?c lp Tuesday morning and after Mr. Uothran had explained its provisions, Fo Vfr. Riohnrds, the dispensary leader, ler * * -- aci novea to sirine oui me nianinB ? vords. This motion was easily voted ch town, and then Mr. D. L. Smith of ho Colleton, heretofore known as a dis- wa jensary man, but recently claiming to by je a Prohibitionist, offered as a sub- Mr ditute a bill providing for prohibition. Ch Mr. Nicholson, an anti-dispensary ste nan, offered a motion to table the ter Smith amendment, and Mr. Richards vil protested against cutting off debates we n this manner, but Mr. Nicholson in- au listed and the chair put the motion. or< [Jp to this time there had been no ex- frc ilanation of the nature of the substl- aft :ute furthe> than that it provided for j. rrohlbition and most of the Prohibi- for lonists voted with the dispensaryltes Fo rgainst tabling. The house refused to ret able by a vote of 64 to 51. Po Upon the reading of the substitute (,u t developed that it consisted of the wj, Mash prohibition bill in toto, and Mr. ^ Mash took occasion to make some ex- bu Sanations. wa He told the story of his bill as out- ,,r( ined above and suggested that there |OC tad been discourtesy, if nothing worse j-,e n the manner in which Mr. Smith had {jt.( :ome into possession of it. He boldly t.|j( leclared that the dispensaryltes were t;r nerely playing a game In which they be "v1, ** onnaor that thav uPS111 1 *' ,,,anr ,4 ?sii uood for prohibition when, as a matter ev| >f fact, knowing that the senate would fer mi vote for prohibition, they were . nerely seeking to hang legislation up . n jo as to retain the state machine as t is. Although reserving the right to to as he might see proper later on, he leclared that for the present he would ,'ote against his own bill. There followed considerable debate, vith Mr. Nash leading the anti-dis- or lensaryites: just as a vote was about an' o be taken Mr. Richards gave Mr. Nash ?' o understand that Mr. Carey had igreed to an adjouniment. Mr. Nash re? igreed but Mr. Carey afterward in- ')ai ormed him that there had been a mis- an inderstanding on the part of Mr. Rich- j:" irds, that he. Carey had not suggest>d an adjournment. On the contrary ?f le was perfectly willing to go In to al he ayes and noes at that time, and a ! eave the matter In charge of Mr. 'Cash. Shi But it had been made clear that the pr< :l-dlspensary people were in the jorlty and when the matter came up iln Wednesday the Smith substitute s knocked out by a vote of 68 to 55. . Richards next moved to indefinitepostpone the Carey-Cothran bill, l the motion was voted down 49 to and a motion to table the Richards which Is the old Raysor-Manning I under a new name, was killed 67 53. The voting put the house larely on record against the state chine and put the matter of local ion up to the senate, dr. Nash sent up to the speaker's ik the following reasons for voting he did: I vote against the proposed substie for the following reasons; I wrote s original of that substitute. I Induced It in the house, so that I and ler Prohibitionists might have an lest and fair opportunity to express -selves and go upon record. Soon reafter I became satisfied in my n mind that advocates of the state pensary intended voting for It, with > view of dividing the antl-dispen y forces and saving the state dlsisary. I became satisfied the bill lid not pass the senate. The bill s then held up In the committee, at suggestion, until such time as It ?ht not interfere with anti-dlspen y legislation. If I believed the bill ild pass the senate, I would support heart and soul. 'It comes In today with a new fathand I honestly believe the effect of passage by the house would be to Id the state dispensary In this state other year. I believe it Is my patrlc doty to help defeat such a result der these circumstances. I must rete to be used as a catspaw to draw pensary chestnuts out of the fire. "J. Wright Nash." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. - Union special of January 30 to lumbia State: /?i incident that used considerate excitement last fht occurred at the Hotel Union :ween Messrs. P. D. Barron and G. B. rron and J. M. Clardy, hotel clerk, teems that during the afternoon the lies of the hotel complained about i conduct of several male guests ol > hotel, and Mr. Clardy, us clerk, ! s instructed to have It stopped. In 1 rauance of this duty he had Home 1 rd.s with Mr. G. B. Barron last ;ht. After he had thought every- 1 ng wus amicably settled, Mr. P. ' Barron with his brother, Mr. G. 1 Barron and Mr. L. L. Motte, came : 0 the lobby, and Mr. P. D. Barron j the cigar stand cursed Mr. Clardy, io took up a glass tumbler at hand ' d threw it at Mr. P. D. Barron, iking him over the left eye and Inting quite a gash. Mr. G. B. Bar1 then came to his brother's asslsice, and drew a pistol which he id twice at Mr. Clardy but missed i n. and came near striking Mr. ( >te; in fact singeing his hair. Both s Messrs. Barron and Mr. Clardy re brought before Mayor Young s morning. Mr. G. B. Barron was , ed J100 or 50 days and P. D. Bar- | i's case, ou, account of his having jrt duties this week, was held over lil Feb. 11. Mr. Clardy was sen- I iced $25 for assault, but in view of ( carrying out instructions he was missed and the sentence suspended he was acting in accordance with ' i duty. I - Union special of January 31 to , ! Columbia State: A very sensation- , in whinh r Tramell. >erlntendent of the spinning dertment of the Excelsior knitting lis, was attacked by J. D. Pore, a < rth Carolina mountaineer, and his | year-old son, occurred in South Ion last nlghi and, as the outcome a life aiid death struggle alone In i i dark, E. S. Tramell disarmed < d overpowered both his antagon- , <. It appears that Fore had been the mill under the Influence of II- 1 or. During the afternoon he had i lulted one of the female operatives | 10 appealed to Mr. Tramell, and ien Tramell remonstrated with 1 re, Fore drew a knife on him but amell managed to get a box be- i een them and then knocked Fore , wn. He then ordered Fore to leave s mill, which he did, vowing venrnce on Tramell. He then returned 1 his home, where he armed himself (1 his son with shot guns and pre- 1 red to waylay Tramell as he re ned home. When the mill closed j seems that the son was reluctant do this, but he did as his father mmanded. Mr. Tramell having an Imation that Fore might give him >uble, went home about dark and newhat sooner than usual and as was nearlng Fowler's store he saw o figures in front of him and a * ice from one asked, "Is that you : amell?" to which he responded es." Immediately the elder Fore ) pped forward and levelled his gun 1 Tromoll'u hreosf As nnlnk as a > sh Tramell drew from his pocket spinning roll, which weighed about ialf pound, the only weapon he had ' d threw that with great force at J re, striking him in the forehead , d causing him to lose the gun. Then ' amell jumped forward, caught the , n and shoved it between his legs, len one barrel discharged. Fore mmanded his boy to shoot and he iced the gun against Tramell's side ' ien, with the other hand Tramell :ured the other gun and by a , preme test of strength broke the n in two, and with the other hand , lied the other gun from between i legs and in attempting to point it ward the other barrel was disarged, the load singeing Tramell's | ir and blowing his hat from his ad. Part of the gun wad was later , and In Tramell's hair. With the | y's gun Tramell then struck the elr Fore and knocked him uncon- j ous and the boy ran away. Tramthen coolly walked off and Inform- < persons at a nearby store that they ( d better look after Fore. Both of t Fores were arrested and placed Jail last night and this morning re fined $100 or 30 days on the ( aingang. the extreme limit the city uncll is allowed, but the case will ( carried to higher courts by Tram- | The incident has caused great cltement and interest and Tramell's 1 nderful strength, nerve and calm- ; S8 have been much commented on. -Charlotte Observer, Wednesday: \ J. M. Dempster, of Kershaw, S. a native of Mecklenburg county, d a former resident of Charlotte, ,s arrested in his room in the Cenil hotel yesterday morning at four lock on a warrant charging him th the abduction of Miss May C. ster. of Greenville, S. C. Miss Fos , who was occupying a room Just ross the hallway, was also taken in arge and placed in the Charlotte tel under the care of an officer. The rrent for the arrest was sworn out Mr. J. C. Rager, who accompanied Dempster and Miss Foster to arlotte and who shared Mr. Demur's room In the hotel. Shortly afdaybreak the authorities in Greenle, as well as Miss Foster's parents, . re notified of the action of the local , thoritles. Chief H. C. Irwin was Jered to hold both until the officers >m Greenville arrived. Yesterday ernoon at -two o'clock Patrolman VV. Head, of the Greenville police ce, accompanied by Mr. Guy B. ster, appeared and last night they i urned with Mr. Dempster and Miss i ster in custody. The warrant sworn t In Greenville charges Dempster th seduction, as well as abduction. Mr. George B. Barron, of Spartanrg, S. C.. was also named in the rrant, but he has not yet been appended. Mr. F. M. Redd, of the al bar, who was employed by Mr. mpster yesterday to represent him, < cided not to resist the return of his ent and he accompanied him to eenvllle last night. The case will s called before Magistrate Samuel . adley this morning. If sufficient idence is produced to bind the deldant over, the case will be tried mediately, criminal court now be; in session there. Nothing has oc rred in Charlotte in montns wnicn >ated such a stir as did the arrest this man. a former resident, and , s young woman, a girl of tender , irs. Mr. Dempster is about 40 years age and is married, having a wife d family in Kershaw, S. C. He was merly connected with O. P. Heath Company, cotton merchants, and tided in Charlotte, For some time st he has been traveling for a well own shoe house in the north. Miss < ster is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. chard Foster, of Greenville, the tifth eleven children. She gives her age 15 and declares that she has been student at the Sacred Heart acady. in Greenville, for the past year, e has a good face and is rather itty. She was nervy, for the pres nee of a half dozen police officers at he station house did not disturb her n the least. "Just let me get my hands >n that fellow Rager who had me arrested and I will scratch his face," ihe declared when some one accidenally called his name. "Oh, I could )ull his hair good," she added as she ailed to mind the way In which the Greenville police officer had acted the ler. Neither Mr. Dempster nor Miss ler. Neither Mr. Dempster nar Miss "ester will tell a full story. There are nany breaks in the accounts which ney give or ineir muveniniw Biuur eavlng Greenville yesterday morning, dr. Dempster asserted when arrested hat he was nothing more than a riend of the girl, whom he knew illghtly. and that he was acting for a riend of his. Mr. George A. Barron. A if Spartanburg, S. C. He did not ex- y jlaln how he came to register the mung lady under the name" of Miss \nnie Evans, of Greensboro, nor :ould he tell of the exact whereabouts if his friend for whom he was safeguarding the girl. Miss Foster tells he same story as Mr. Dempster, de- 1 daring that she left Greenville of her >wn free will and that she hoped to ee Mr. George Barron here in a day >r two. To a reporter she said that ihe was enroute to Washington to vlst relatives. That there is such an ndividual as Mr. Barron Is evident, 'or Miss Foster dispatched a message :o him shortly after her arrest yesterlay morning. It read as follows: 'Come to Charlotte on next train. lack In troubl?." No reply was received, nor did Mr. Ba.vron appear on :he first train. He had evidently got:en wind of what was happening and Jiscreetly decided to stay away. In he meantime, Mr. DempsteF remainid In a cell in the police station, beng under a $1,000 bond. The meetng of the girl and her brother yesteriay afternoon was strained. She was dtting in the police station talking K'ith several officers ' and suddenly {lanced out of the window. "Why, :here's Guy. my brother from Greenvllle. Shut the door and don't let lim see me here." In a few moments however. Guy walked in. He did not ipeak; he only gave his sister a searching look. He then, with the iss I stance of Mr. Head, who had ac omnanled him. began to arrange to arry both back with him to Grernrille. All the necessary arrangements were made and laat night they loft. Mr. Dempster, against whom the charge is for seduction as wpll as ub- . Juction was born and reared In Morn- , 'r.g Star township. He Is well known In Charlotte. MERE-MENTION. The Salvation Army has opened an 'antl-aulclde bureau" in St. Louis.... ^ Gieorge Burnham, Jr., former general counsel for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Insurance association of New York, recently convicted of crooked' dealings, is now at work In the printing office at Sing Sing prison "Death from swallowing his own brain," Is the verdict of a Decatur, 111., coroner's Jury, in the case of George 1 B. Thomas, a railroad brakeman, who was injured by falling Into some pumping machinery... .Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Baker of Moosup, Conn., have come into possession of about $2G,000 by the will of Jonathan T. Niles, a "tramp" whom they fed and sheltered >ne winter's night Pennsylvania Ice dealers are rushing the harvesting .of the crop by working a double shift. 0810:' electric lights for the night crews Dr. James W. Simpson, a prominent New York dentist, Is on trial at Riverhead, Long' Island, on the charge of murdering his fatherin-law In December, 1905.... .. .President Castro of Venezuela, is critically 111, and his death Is expected at any moment. He will probably be succeeded by Gen. Francisco Alcantara. The Delaware legislature doesn't ^ think that the present is a good time to abolish the whipping post In that utate The state of Missouri is investigating an alleged ice trust operating in that state........Charles W. Schutte. capitalist and banker of Memphis. Tenn., committed suicide in a Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium last Monday, by choking himself with a towel.**...May 13 will be observed by the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution as the day on which the first white settlers landed o In America, at Jamestown in 1607.... H. L. F. Lagercrantz has been appointed minister of Sweden to the United States The senate committee on Judiciary has favorably reported the bill which passed the house during the last session, which gives the government the right of appeal In criminal cases The French steamer St. rinrmQ n I a frum Wout TnHIo nnrfg with 200 laborers, is in quarantine at Colon, Panama, on account of smallpox The detailed figures of the estate of the late Marshall Field of Chicago, foot up more than $100,000,000. The taxes on the estate will total about $1,000,000 annually President Roosevelt will be the central figure at the opening of the Jamestown exposition on April 2 . 4 For the first time in three years the Hudson river is now frozen over 4 from bank to bank at Wyack, N. Y. A score of firemen were caught under falling walls of an eight-story building at Buffalo, N. Y., Monday, while fighting fire. Three were killed and the balance more or less seriously ? Injured Nearly 200 miners lost their lives in a coal mine near Saarbruck, Prussia, last Monday, as the result of an explosion of fire damp. There were 600 men working In the shaft when the explosion occurred.... Western railroads are declining to give the government special rates for moving troops and are charging full passenger rates... .Harry Murray, a New York expressman, has confessed the ^ stealing of trunks of New York society people, containing $200,000 worth of jewelry and laces Governor Swettenham of Jamaica, has withdrawn his l?tt?r tn idmlrot Davis anri avnrfSSPS regret at having written It The Baldwin locomotive works, Philadelphia, were damaged to the extent of f 1.000,000 by fire Tuesday Sixty persons are dead as the result of a mine explosion at Fayetteville, W. Va~, last Tuesday night The net earnings of the United States Steel company for the last quarter were $41,744,964. The net earnings of 1906 were $156,619,111 Russia Is buying large quantities of American wheat on account of the failure of the crop throughout the empire. AT THE CHURCHES. , BAPTIST. J rbv. i. o.'murray, pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7 p. m. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. RPV T n RlRIM nKvnvm Sunday Services?Morning service at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 3 p. m. Afternoon service at 4 o'clock. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. rkv. b. e. gillespie, pastor Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 a. m. Evening service at" 7 o'clock. TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. rkv. h. j. cauthen. pastor. Sunday Services?Morning service at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 3.30 p. ni. Evening service at 7 o'clock. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. rev. w. c. ewart. pastor. Sunday Service*.?Sabbath school n4 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7 o'clock. Special JJotires. York Circuit. J The first Quarterly conference will ^ convene at Philadelphia next Saturday. February 2nd, opened by a sermon by Rev. R. E. Stackhouse, at 10.30 o'clock. Dn Sunday Mr. Stackhouse will preach st Philadelphia at 11 o'clock, and at King's Mountain Chapel at 3 o'clock. Please notice the change In appointmenta. E. K. Hardin, Pastor. Jan. 29. tf 2t